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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 3
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Solomon begins to build the temple—He makes the vail and the pillars, and uses much gold and many precious stones.
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Then</span> Solomon began to <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/3/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 6: 1 (1-38); 1 Chr. 22: 1; 2 Ne. 5: 16 (15-17); D&C 84: 5 (5, 31); D&C 124: 31 (25-55).">build</a> the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> at Jerusalem in mount <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/3/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 22: 2.">Moriah</a>, where <i>the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></i> appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_chr/3/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Sam. 24: 18; 1 Chr. 21: 18 (18-27).">threshingfloor</a> of <sup>d</sup><a href="2_chr/3/1d" mark="d" type="E" title="OR Araunah; 2 Sam. 24: 18; 1 Chr. 21: 18; 1 Chr. 22: 1.">Ornan</a> the Jebusite.
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And he began to build in the second <i>day</i> of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
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&#182; Now these <i>are the things wherein</i> Solomon was instructed for the building of the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/3/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 6: 2; D&C 119: 2 (1-2).">house</a> of God.  The length by cubits after the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/3/3b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR ancient measure.">first</a> measure <i>was</i> threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
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And the porch that <i>was</i> in the front <i>of the house,</i> the length <i>of it was</i> according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height <i>was</i> an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
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And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
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And he garnished the house with precious stones for <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/3/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Beauty.">beauty</a>: and the gold <i>was</i> gold of Parvaim.
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He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
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And he made the most <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/3/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 6: 16; D&C 96: 2.">holy</a> house, the length whereof <i>was</i> according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, <i>amounting</i> to six hundred talents.
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And the weight of the nails <i>was</i> fifty shekels of gold.  And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
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And in the most holy house he made two <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/3/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cherubim.">cherubims</a> of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
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&#182; And the wings of the cherubims <i>were</i> twenty cubits long: one wing <i>of the one cherub was</i> five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing <i>was likewise</i> five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
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And <i>one</i> wing of the other cherub <i>was</i> five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing <i>was</i> five cubits <i>also,</i> joining to the wing of the other cherub.
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The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces <i>were</i> inward.
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&#182; And he made the vail <i>of</i> blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
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Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that <i>was </i>on the top of each of them <i>was</i> five cubits.
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And he made chains, <i>as</i> in the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/3/16a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR inner sanctuary.">oracle</a>, and put <i>them</i> on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put <i>them</i> on the chains.
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And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
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